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World University and School will link with multiple, online museums, as a wiki. While World University & School may develop its own museum over time, in a virtual world, for example, at first WUaS will simply aggregate free, open museums that are accessible on the web. Just as many universities have their libraries, World University and School will have many diverse, free open libraries.

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The Catalog of Art Museums Images Online contains a huge database of 95,000 art images online. This database of rights-cleared images for educational use features images along with audio, video, and multimedia.

The DigiBarn Computer Museum seeks to capture personal stories and track technological evolution through a large collection of vintage computer systems, manuals, videos, interviews, and other fossil relics of the "Cambrian explosion" of personal computing that ignited in 1975.

The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required. http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

The Harvard's Sackler Museum has over 250,000 free art works online. While teaching and learning through direct contact with original works of art is central to our mission, the importance of the wider reach offered by technology cannot be overestimated.

"Years ago I decided that the greatest need in our Country was Art… We were a very young country and had very few opportunities of seeing beautiful things, works of art… So, I determined to make it my life's work if I could."

- Isabella Stewart Gardner, on the creation of her Museum, 1917

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum displays an art collection of world importance, including works that rank among the most significant of their type. Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 2,500 objects—paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, photographs and letters—from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America. Built to evoke a 15th-century Venetian palace, the Museum itself provides an atmospheric setting for Isabella Stewart Gardner's inventive creation.

The Museum houses over one million artifacts, prints, rare books, technical archives, drawings, photographs, films and holograms dating from 7th century BCE to today. The collections reflect the wide interests of the MIT Community from the founding in 1861, to current cutting edge MIT research. The MIT Museum's collections support research, publication, restoration, education, public programs and exhibitions.

The MWNF Virtual Museum has been set up in cooperation with a network of institutions and museums from different countries. Our aim is to introduce art and culture as a major means of mutual understanding to visitors from all over the world. Therefore, the MWNF Virtual Museum provides the most important contents in four widely spoken navigation languages – Arabic, English, French and Spanish – and country-related content also in the relevant local language.

Open Museum is a participatory exhibit space that permits creators, keepers and lovers of the arts to share (and connect around!) one rich object at a time. Open Museum helps make the arts more accessible to everyone and supports museums in engaging people around their collections.

Far below the city streets of Paris, in the quiet, damp darkness, seven million Parisians lie motionless. Their skeletons, long since dis-interred from the churchyard graves their survivors left them in, are neatly stacked and aligned to form the walls of nearly one kilometer of walking passage.

The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum.The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum.

The Wesleyan World Music Collection contains over three hundred instruments. Currently 140 have been added to the Virtual Instrument Museum, and more are being added every day. For easy browsing, the site organizes the instruments in several different ways: By type; By material; By region; Alphabetically; By genre; By ensemble.

virtualmuseum.ca is a unique interactive space that brings together Canadian museum collections and riches in a variety of thought-provoking and instructive contents. It’s the window on current museum news and the reference guide to planning an outing.

CollectiveAccess. 2014. CollectiveAccess. (CollectiveAccess is software for describing all manner of things, and allows you to create catalogues that closely conform to your needs without custom programming). collectiveaccess.org/.

Galvan, Andrew A. 2013. Andrew A. Galvan, Curator of Mission Dolores & Ohlone Indian. (Oral history of Andrew A. Galvan of Misión San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) and the Ohlone tribe. The first Native American curator of Mission Dolores, Andrew oversees the same Mission that baptized his ancestors in 1794. Learn more in The California Museum's exhibit "California Missions: A Journey Along the El Camino Real," now open through April 27, 2014. Visit http://www.californiamuseum.org/california-missions ... for more information). Sacramento, CA: The California Museum Youtube Channel.

Center for the Future of Museums. 2010. Center for the Future of Museums. (AAM’s Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) helps museums explore the cultural, political and economic challenges facing society and devise strategies to shape a better tomorrow. CFM is a think-tank and research and design lab for fostering creativity and helping museums transcend traditional boundaries to serve society in new ways). Washington DC: Center for the Future of Museums.

Curarium. 2013. Curarium. (The Curarium is a collection of collections. It is a platform which leverages the power of the crowd in order to annotate, curate, and augment works within and beyond their respective collections, with the aim of constructing sharable, media-rich stories and elaborate arguments about individual items as well as groups of items in our corpora). Cambridge, MA: curarium.com.

GLAM-WIKI. 2014. GLAM-WIKI. (The GLAM-WIKI project supports GLAMs and other institutions who want to work with Wikimedia to produce open-access, freely-reusable content for the public). outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM .

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